About Steven AitchisonIt’s started!
Your future has just begun, the moment you read this sentence. With each passing word you read, your future possibilities changed.
Doesn’t that blow your mind? The fact that because you stayed to read just a millisecond longer that your future changed it’s path.
Right now, this very second, your future is getting prepared, eagerly awaiting your arrival, waiting for you to come and claim it, waiting for you to welcome it with open arms and shout ‘It’s me, I’ve arrived’ – What frame of mind will you arrive in?
Are you going to journey to your future complaining about the rest of the world?
Are you going to reach your future with a heavy heart and slowly drag yourself through the rest of it?
OR
Are you going to run and scream into your future, singing, whooping, thanking the world that you made it to your future, excited, ecstatic by the possibilities that this new place brings, your mind races with the possibilities, the endless possibilities – a new love, a new friendship, a new book, a business, rekindled love, your family join in the celebrations with you as they can see your future is a bright one, one that is infected with the possibilities of a new way of doing things, a new way of thinking, and an old way of happiness, forever following you.
Failure, depression, lost dreams, forgotten love, hatred, and anger all go with you to your future but each time diminished by the thoughts of a new future.
Your future asks you to let go of your inhibitions, stop trying to please others, dump falseness, drop the protocol, open up the person inside, the person that wants to say ‘Fuck it’, this is me, this is who I really am – I want to be genuine, I need to be passionate, I have finally met my authenticity.
Your future awaits you!
All it asks of you is:
Honesty!
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So true Steve, honesty plays a big part in our lives. In decisions we take, in relationships we create and in life we arrange. Being honest is about being open to possibilities and just admitting our ideas, our desires and everything we want before people, situations and even God sometimes.
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Hi Jaky, you got what I was saying here and put it in a great way.
Steven, just the perfect article to start a new week. As you say, run and scream into your new future with all the possibilities it brings!
I remember this is just how I felt when I took part in my first ever personal development event 10 years ago – and it felt great. I let go of a lot of heaviness and “stuff” overnight and it really was a transformational weekend.
And it all began within me – being honest with myself and saying this who I am, this is my truth and take me for why I am, just the way I am.
Thanks for the timely prompt. Life is good!
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Hi Arvind, I am glad you enjoyed this. I think we all need reminders sometimes and that is why reading other blogs is really good, although i have been neglecting that duty over the last few months
Steven,
I very much feel boldness in reading your words today! Our future…we can take in any direction we choose…with the choices we make in how we are living our NOW.
So, as I read this – it pumps me up to where I’m headed!!!
Very cool!
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Hey Lance, so glad you liked this. I actually felt energised and pumped as I was writing it so it was a good post to write and it was one of the ones that only takes 10 minutes to write as it flowed so well.
I like honesty, it’s perhaps one of the most valuable things in the world. I like to be honest and the people who are honest to me. I love it this word!
Very true words in this post, Steven!
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Hi Roman, thanks for you comment on this, much appreciated.
Steven,
I can live with out a lot of things…honesty isn’t one of them! What would our day, our life or our world look like with complete honesty?
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Tess, our lives would be so much different with complete honesty. I think if we are at least honest with ourselves it’s a start.
That was a great blog Steve! The world has lost it’s self in the false facade we portray and life would be a lot happier if we were all honest about everything but honesty hurts and we are all so precious now-a-days aren’te we? We need to toughen up and follow our hearts. Living a life of honesty will only bring true and fulfilling happiness to ALL parts of our lives. Toughen up, face the truth and BE true. Thanks for that Steve
Very true Steven. The truth will set us free, but sometimes it will piss us off…what we are hiding from ourselves and others? There exists the seed of our greatness.
Thanks for your continuous inspiration:)
Hi Sayantan, thanks for you comment, I appreciate it.
Hi Tania, thanks do much for your kind words. We are all different, so I don’t think honesty in everything is necessarily good, but being honest with ourselves without being brutal is a great thing.
I love this blog. And I LOVE this post. Your timing is perfect. I am currently ‘giving up’ on a possible dream. But I know I will have new dreams to follow. Starting now.
Must go, have some whooping to do….!
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Hi Karen, so glad you have that attitude to keep going, forget about the other dream and just go with what your heart says, which it sounds like you are doing. Keep whooping
Cool article Steven, we must be honest with ourselves in order to find happiness and contentment. It’s easy to rationalize and make excuses about the way things are and why we shouldn’t change, but until we get down to who we really are and make sure to honestly assess this, true fulfillment will be hard to find. Thanks!
Hi Joe, never a truer thing said, we can’t move on until we are completely honest with ourselves.
It’s very exciting that our future starts right now and that we don’t need to let the past hold us back from our dreams. Honesty is so important in the equation, if we aren’t honest with ourselves, what do we have?
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Hi Stacy, we don’t have a lot if we are not honest with ourselves. Connecting to the deeper part of ourselves requires real honesty, only then will we be able to move on and keep moving.
Sometimes you read something that really speaks to you. Thats what this post is for me today. I really have to stop trying to please others, I’m starting to feel drained… thanks for putting this up… I control what I do from now on!!
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Hi Alejandro, I am so glad this spoke to you, it’s always an honour when a reader says something like this, thank you so much.
Steven,
Thank you SO MUCH for this. This is exactly what I needed. I’m a super ambitious person, and am right now just starting college.. I can’t let this time go to waste. I need to get off computer and start doing what I love best.. thank you so much.
-Patrick
Hi Patrick, I see you are of the Aitchison clan (well a branch of that clan
). I am glad you liked this Patrick and good luck with your college career, I wish you all the best.
Alejandro has what the real meaning of this post is about, it is about being honest with yourself and to stop having to please others for validation. Pleasing others is an endless path filled with disappointment, because there is never enough you can do for them – there will always be something wrong. Pleasing yourself by being honest about who and what you really are is the best way to tackle life.
Once I opened my life to honesty over fear, all the doors opened to me. I feel so much more free now.
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Hi Mathieu, thanks for adding to the conversation, I appreciate it.
Hi Steven,
Why is it that sometimes, things just drop in in the nick of time to reinforce belief? – thats what this blog did when I read it. Things went a bit pear shaped recently & I handled them much better than ever before, even drawing strength from experience, but then, to top it all, I am wonderfully reminded by Honesty that I am truly following the right path, however long and tiring its going to be. That I cant thank you enough for, for that comforting reminder.
Annette.
Hi Annette. This is a message you obviously needed to hear and I am glad you found it here at CYT. I am so glad you know you are following the right path, it’s a good place to be in your head. Thanks.
Well said, Steve. Our Authentic, unlimited nature is pure truth and honesty. Trying to look good and please others buries our natural truth.
Rob, brilliantly put as usual. I appreciate all your comments Rob as you add so much to the conversation and you always give me something else to think about.
“…run and scream into your future, singing, whooping, thanking the world…”
Waves hand, I will!
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Thanks for you comment eddy.
Hi Steven! Thanks for your perspective on how important our mindset is for the creation of our future.
As a personal preference, I try to focus more on the now. That allows me to be totally present and fully enjoy what I’m experiencing each moment. By the time we get to the future, it is the ‘now’, right?
That being said, I agree that we need to make the best of the now so that our future is beautifully constructed from the choices we are making in the moment. I totally agree that honesty and authenticity are essential to create a happy ‘now’ or future.
I appreciate how your enthusiasm for life jumped out the page. It made me jump for joy too. Thanks for that. Loving blessings!
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Hi Andrea. Totally right, this is not a post about your future per se, it’s about being honest with yourself today so you can walk into the future more confident and comfortable with yourself, and you can do this by being totally honest with yourself. If you are not honest with yourself now you won’t be honest with your future self either.
I am so glad this made you ‘jump with joy’, I felt the energy and passion as I was writing this and it had me pumped up for the rest of the day and it’s f=great to hear that came across in the post.
Honesty can be tough. But it breaks psychological barriers not too many of us know about our selves. Re leave yourself from insecurities. Inability to be yourself and gain a new perspective on life. Get things done and be more vulnerable. You can only grow from pain. And pain can come from being too honest. So why not, become a bean stalk.
Why not become a beanstalk?
Honesty with yourself can be tough but the benefits outweigh the downside, in my opinion. When you get to the core of yourself that’s when life starts to take a new twist.
Very enlightening article, Steven. I particularly like what you said about your future asking you to let go of things that don’t really help us. It’s good to look at our future with an open mind and humility. We never know what’s going to come of our future, but whatever it is, we all have to make the best of it. Great post.
-Gabe
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Thanks for your comment Gabe I really appreciate it.
Honesty opens the door to the truth of our own authentic self just waiting to come out playful and strong and brave into this immensely beautiful world. One simple straightforward word but it does pack a wallop doesn’t it Steven? With you brother. Oh. I nearly forgot something. I do believe honesty if we are true to it will lead us to the people we need to be with…and if we don’t need to be with them it’ll arrange that too.
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Hi Chris, it does indeed pack a wallop. I think you’re absolutely right in that honesty truly leads us to the people we need in our life – that’s a fantastic point.
There is so much power and freedom that con ONLY be accessed through honesty. That means honesty with ourselves is a must because we can’t be truly honest with anyone else until we are truly honest with ourselves. What a powerfully freeing energy this post resonates with.
Hi Jonathan, I think honesty with ourselves is truly an enlightening, but tough, thing to achieve in life. The immense power that comes from honesty is worth the effort of achieving it.
Hi Steve,
Wow, this words lift your spirit and them, let you make a reality check. Let you ask your self; Do you have integrity? Do you do what you think and feel? It is like “here is your journey to Greatness… Are you ready? Well we are ready, we can make it… and if we look inside us and recognize our values and purpose then we are ready… we got it…
Thanks for this powerful post.
Regards…
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Hi Melvin, thanks for your kind words. We have to dig deep within ourselves to really find ourselves, our values and purpose in life.
Hi Steve,
A great and simple reminder about the importance of honesty! I often tell my clients “tell me exactly what comes out, I can only work with what is there.” What comes out may not be Truth with a big ‘t’ but when they are being honest about their ‘truth’ they finally have a chance to examine it and change.
And I love the idea about the future excitedly awaiting me. I’ll remember that.
great information!
you are right we can’t please anybody so there is no good on doing that and with honesty, it is very important not only to other people but also to ourselves. Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so people should do everything just to conserve it.
thanks for that great post…
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Steven
what I want to say is :
Amen!
It reminds me of Atlas Shrugged!
thank you angel:P@
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